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Hyping Innovation, Neglecting Maintenance

KPFA - Against the Grain

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The Costs of Maintenance

Sasha Lilly speaks with Lee Vinsel, co-author of the Innovation Delusion. The book looks at how our obsession with the new has disrupted work that matters most. In post-war years there was this enormous expansion of infrastructure in the US. When we hit the skids in the 70s and early 80s you start to see publications coming out saying, hold on, we're having trouble with all of our infrastructure falling apart.

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